Consequence Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

“Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.”

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There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the…

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I always write a story in one sitting.

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What we need is endless courage.

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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things,…

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But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold…

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I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and…

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I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle…

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Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

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we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

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The arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive…

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The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done…

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